Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
BERTOLT BRECHTHungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Eats first, morals after.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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